The last 19 months of our administration have been very eventful. We have, within that period, made statements of whom we are, which are in tandem with good governance all over the world. One, this administration has been able to prove to the people of Oyo State that with their support, changing the landscape of society for the better is almost a bread and butter exercise; that good governance is not rocket science. Second, we have been able to make a statement on our displeasure with the accumulated dirt hitherto associated with our environment and the premium we place on infrastructural renewal.

Towards the end of the year 2012, I went into a journey into myself. I elected to do a strong estimation of the journey we have undertaken so far as an administration and what we needed to do as a government in 2013, especially, what is expected of me. I went into a few days solitude, examining every of my governmental step one after the other and projecting into the future. Since we are not running an infallible government, the moment of the reclusive reflection, for me, was a period to reflect on the steps I had taken as a governor that were wrong. I came to conclusions on how to make amends. The steps that I took and for which I received accolades and which my conscience adjudged me to have scored a pass mark, I want to do even more in 2013.

This administration, comparatively, has set a very high moral code for itself, though we are no angels – I have never seen one; I only read of them in books and stories like Ali And The Angel. This, we will continue with in the year 2013.

On infrastructure, our target is to dualize all the major entrances into major towns and cities of the state and works have commenced on them. In Ibadan, we are dualizing about three major roads and will still do more this year. Indeed, we will give greater priority to construction of roads in year 2013. We will make meaningful impact in the health and social sectors, especially in the area of provision of neighbourhood markets and stalls for several of our teeming market men and women who constitute the balk of our commerce. We will give more empowerment to youth, artisans and our people involved in commercial activities so that we can bolster the state economy.

Overall, in year 2013, my greatest passion is to make a more positive impression and impact in the lives of the people who queued inside the scorching sun to elect me as governor of Oyo State in April, 2011. In this case, I intend to aggressively pursue the urban renewal goal of this administration. If you check the capital city of Ibadan now, and situate it vis-a-vis the deplorable state of our state upon assumption of duty, you will understand the place of vision in any human endeavor. When we came on board, we were livid in our spirit that a state which our forefathers drove to become the land of firsts could be typecast as one of the filthiest states in Nigeria. I am sure that if those assessors of the time come back and do their ranking now, Oyo State will be in the first 12 cleanest states at the moment. We are however not there yet. Our target is to receive the trophy of the cleanest state in Nigeria.

By the time we took the mantle of governorship of the state, Oyo was in the doldrums in education. Structures were dilapidating and morale of teachers had sagged considerably. It was so bad that the state where Chief Obafemi Awolowo proclaimed free education to the whole Western Region came 34th out of the 36 states of the federation in the WASC examination. Some schools even sat with chairs constructed by the Bola Ige government when we came into office. Right now, though we are not there yet, we have provided 17,000 furniture to our schools’ classrooms and we are constructing another 100,000 more. We are rehabilitating about 1,500 moribund classrooms at the moment.

As I said in my address to workers of the state at the inter-faith service held at the Governor’s Office in Ibadan on Monday January 7, 2013, we will give priority attention to the welfare of workers in the state, more than we have ever done before. Already, we have succeeded in demonstrating to the workers that we are their best friends ever. This we have done by training over 13,000 of the workers and promoting them more than any government has ever done, as well as increasing car and housing loans to them as much as 100%. We will construct affordable housing estates for them this year and arrange mortgage for workers to be able to access these houses.

Already, our government is building one of the first civilian-constructed over-head bridge, the last that was done in Oyo State being about 30 years ago. We have also constructed many bridges, chief among which are the Bodija/Secretariat bridge, Olomi/Ayegun bridge, Ogbere Babanla bridge, Arulogun bridge, among others. These were bridges destroyed by the 2011 flood and which hitherto made life uncomfortable for our people.

Space will not allow me to enumerate all we have done for our people in 19 months but we are sworn to bend over backwards in doing even more in 2013.

Overall, our passion is to use the power given to us by God, in 2013, to maximize happiness in Oyo State and reduce the suffering of our people, in line with the classic utilitarian concept as advocated by Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill. In other words, we will do good to the greatest number of people, God helping us.
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Ajimobi is doing well in area of sanitation though, I'll snap some pictures of ogunpa and dugbe whenever am chanced, the whole illegal stalls have being brought down and yesterday he made promise of building 100 modern stalls per/day to replace d shanty they have there before, but I think in a different location though.
Soon, you won't find traders by the road sides in ibadan again, if he can sustain this momentum.

Idi ape, ibadan.

I am really impressed by Ajimobi! If he ever gets to read this, I only ask and encourage him to continue on this current path and even after this term, hope he continues the same in his next term hopefully! Well, I know Ibadan very well and for the first time ever, it was possible to drive from Idi Ape through Gate to UCH! That was never possible before because of the chaos at Gate and it was only commercial vehicles that go through Gate while private detoured and went through the Government House Area. Gate now has free-flowing traffic and is more organized and clean...that was a pleasant surprise to me! The under-bridge of the Lagos Ibadan expressway is now also cleared and currently traffic flow freely there and is clean!? Unbelievable! And that fly-over at Mokola is very commendable and impressive! Hopefully, he can push through with this work which is really, really commendable!

Yeah bro, you need to see how dugbe (around cocoa house) is now, down to ogunpa bridge, he has cleared those people encroaching on the road off, makes you wonder what those past government were looking when that ugly trend started.
Most interesting part is the fact that he's relocating all of them to new markets which will make things more orderly in the state. I just hope he does that quickly cause people shouldn't remain without shops for too long.